Chapter 6 - The Myriad Energies True Form (2/2)

But there was no more time to hesitate, Krune made up his mind and grabbed the demon core hoping that it's energy would be enough, at the same time he was afraid, the demon core's spiritual energy is different from the energy of heaven and earth, so it could very well break his new energy meridian apart, but he really was without more choices now.

For Krune's surprise, not only could the meridians absorb the energy from the demon core, they immediately converted all the spiritual energy coming out of it, the conversion could be said to be almost instantaneous! Krune didn't know but even natural meridians couldn't possibly convert spiritual energy this fast!

Ten minutes later the cracks on the meridian disappeared and it looked normal again, slowly the spiritual energy of the surroundings started to calm down and the rate of absorption from the demon core got lower and lower the more time it passed, Krune finally let out a sigh of relief, seems like the process of the meridian formation is finally coming to an end.

'Crack'

Krune heard this sound but he didn't even need to look to know what happened, all the spiritual energy from the demon core was gone, so it broke into powder and scattered on the floor, the demon core that almost cost his own life to obtain disappeared just like that. Krune's felt gloomy but it was just for a second, the spiritual energy from heaven and earth also stopped completely and the final process of the meridian formation came to an end.

Just as krune was about to test its new meridian, it suddenly started to shine!

'What is up now? Is it not over yet?'

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At the same time, who know how many galaxies away, in a dilapidated cave in the middle of a mountain from an unknown planet, a statue like old man was sit in a meditative position. He was totally covered in thick dust, who knows how many years, centuries or maybe even millenniums hasn't he moved? If people don't know better they would definitely think he was dead.

But just now, that statue like old man suddenly opened his eyes, they looked like the could see through anything and anywhere, like nothing in this universe could ever be able to hide away from them.

He looked at a certain direction, his gaze penetrating into the space-time, the direction he was looking at was of course, Krune's planet, the Planet of Makui.

The old man was a little surprised and let out a gentle smile, he could see Krune inside the cave looking at the energy meridian, obviously alarmed for not knowing why it is shining at all.

”Haha, so this little friend is a wisp, no wonder, no wonder, the Myriad Energies technique does indeed fit wisps very well, and this one specially seems very talented at it.

I guess there is still hope after all!”

He looked a little longer, expectation could be seen on his face, it looked like he had been waiting for Krune during countless years.

”Little friend, do not disappoint this old man.”

He then stopped looking and closed his eyes, who knows how long it will be when they are opened again.

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Back at Krune's cave, the meridians finally stopped shining and settled again, he couldn't make heads or tails from what happened, he didn't feel anything different after all the brilliance, he waited a while longer to make sure nothing else was going to happen, but it seems like it was really over this time.

'Phew... Now then, I hope you don't disappoint me, my future accomplishments depend on your performance!'

The meridian final form was pretty much the same as any of the previous nine meridians but with almost three times the size of a single one, as he thought, the nine meridians are now one single sturdy meridian, he could feel the energy of all nine meridians together coming from this single one.

Krune calmed himself first and then started to cultivate using his new meridian, he first only absorbed a little bit of spiritual energy in case something went wrong.

To his surprise, that bit of energy was instantly converted and fell into his core straight away, let alone need to wait to harmonize with the spiritual energy inside his core, it felt like this has always been part of his core spiritual energy to start with, it was added up to his cultivation straight away.

'Great!'

Krune was ecstatic! slowly he started to increase the amount of spiritual energy gathered from the ambient, an hour later he had already reached the same rate of absorption that his nine meridians could do at the fastest speed, but there was still space for more, Krune kept at it, slowly but surely gathering more and more spiritual energy, it wasn't before two hours later that he finally could feel that the rate of which the meridian could convert the energy had finally reached a limit.

'Amazing, this is already almost three times the speed of my previous nine meridians working together! And this is just the very first one, once I build more spiritual energy pseudo meridians it will only get faster!

No wait, this meridian now works as the same way as the natural meridians from the other races, they can't be called pseudo meridians anymore, from now on, I'll will simply call them spiritual energy meridians or energy meridians for short.'

Krune enjoyed the feeling of success a little more but it didn't take long for him to calm down.

'This is just the first step, I still have a long way to go, if not for that four winged demon crow's core, my meridian would have shattered and it would end up in failure, I can't start the the creation of another one now, there is simply not enough spiritual energy, I still have to stick to my initial plan, I have to breakthrough to the 5th stage of Qi Condensation, no, with this speed of cultivation and the higher concentration that exists in the inner part of the forest, it shouldn't be a problem to breakthrough to the 6th stage. After that I will look for a low level spirit vein that doesn't have too strong beasts guarding it and take it for myself, in the process I should also gather more demon cores, I have the feeling that the more meridians I make the more spiritual energy will be necessary.'

Krune steadied his mind and put his all into cultivating, his luck is finally turning for the better.